Glutamate and choline levels predict individual differences in reading ability in emergent readers

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4082-4089

  Pugh, Kenneth R ^a,b,c   Frost, Stephen J ^a   Rothman, Douglas L ^b   Hoeft, Fumiko ^a,d   Del Tufo, Stephanie N ^a,c   Mason, Graeme F ^b   Molfese, Peter J ^a   Einar Mencl, W ^a   Grigorenko, Elena L ^a,e   Landi, Nicole ^a,c,e   Preston, Jonathan L ^a,f   Jacobsen, Leslie ^a   Seidenberg, Mark S ^a,g   Fulbright, Robert K ^a,b  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding; Individual differences; MRS; Phonological processing; Reading; Reading disability

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH;

DECODING; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MRS; PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING; READING; READING DISABILITY;

ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; CHILD; CHOLINE; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84896782820     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3907-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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